[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 1-7, 2013

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as
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All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:
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All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; or Sony SRF-59 as specified; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as specified

** MEXICO. 610, Nov 1 at 1242 UT, checking for XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, // 650 XETNT, I think it`s there, but underneath a stronger Spanish signal, with birthday greetings to kids, notably quinceañeras in various colonias; one mentioned was Villahermosa, but surely not Tabasco as also mentioned Nueva Rosita and Sabinas phones, CST TC, i.e. XEBX 5000/500 watts in Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 650, Nov 1 at 1237 UT, song extolling Sinaloa, naming several cities, then compares to Durango, Chihuahua, back to beloved Sinaloa. 1239 ID as ``Chávez Radio K``, and `Panorama Agropecuario`, 5:39 TC. It`s XETNT in Los Mochis back on MST. Normally duplicated on XEGS 610 Guasave, but found another XE dominant there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, Nov 6 at 0601 UT, multi-verse choral NA, 0605 full ID by SHVA mentions location in Colonia Centro, Zacatecas, FM 105.9 ``de lo más alto del cuadrante``, then jazzed-up version of `Ghost Riders in the Sky`. I thought this would be easy to look up, but in Cantú and IRCA there are *no* Zacatecans on 660, and no FM // matches either. Maybe Zacatecas was part of a street address rather than the city or state itself: there ought to be a law. Couldn`t copy more due to considerable QRM, including another XE with NA coming up underneath first station at 0607. Of the nine Mexicans on 660, I`ve previously IDed XEEY, XEACB, XEDTL, XEFZ and likely two of those (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier search, Nov 1 at 0451-0456 UT: JBA on 693, 774, 783, 882, 954, 963 [these two adjacent to my 960 local but ~90 degrees away], 1053, 1215, 1413, 1422, 1503 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier search, Nov 2 at 0511-0516: JBA on 693, 774, 882, 891 (first one noticed, het with no BFO needed), 1053, 1062, 1179 [could be Cuba], 1422 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier search, Nov 4 at 0139-0144, after first hearing the Saudi 1521 het on 1520 KOKC: 531, 693, 774, 783, 882, 891, 945, 954, 1206, 1215 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier, Nov 6 at 0653: het on 910 from 909; too late to do a full search (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search, Nov 1 at 1248-1252 UT: JBA on 702, 738, 774, 882. 774 definitely from NW = Japan, but 702 and 738 imply NSW and Tahiti.

TP carrier search, Nov 2 at 1234-1241 UT: JBA on 567, 594, 693, 702, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1044, 1053, 1152. As usual checked 774 first and there it was looping NW, i.e. Japan. Can`t be sure all the others were from NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA carrier search Nov 3 at 1254-1259: 594, 747, 774, 972, 1053, 1314 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1010-, Nov 2 at 0112 UT, het on the lo side. I can get a rather tight DF on it, ENE/WSW which puts it in the USA or NW Mexico. MWoffsets list has nothing but KCHJ in California, only 5.3 Hz low and this is much further than that, but a lot less than 1 kHz. No keyboard handy to measure the pitch, but heard first on caradio at 0106, so not a local device. 

Het still there at 0503 check, and at 0524 I have my keyboard to find the closest pitch match: Bb below C-middle, i.e. approx. 233 Hz, which puts the carrier on approx. 1019.767. I could still hear it before sunrise around 1230, but couldn`t track it long enough to decide whether it`s east or west from here. Ideas? Besides KXEN, the 1010 stations along the likely line range from BCN, to AZ, Chihuahua, Amarillo, Independence KS, Indiana and Ohio.

We can rule out KINDependence KS; shortly after local mean noon at 1840 UT Nov 2, I can detect its carrier as the one and only daytime signal here on 1010, and is not 233 Hz low, in fact very slightly on the hi side of 1010, as compared to neighboring stations on 1020, 1000, etc. (not including KLIO ESPND Wichita 1070 which is always way off itself) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1630, Nov 1 at 0613 UT, as 1640 KZLS local splash relents a bit (change from lo-fi ag-talk to hier-fi true oldies has increased that problem), I am hearing not one but two stations in Spanish, ID sounded like XEXJ but maybe I am not fully awake as that leads nowhere. Per listings the two would be KRND in Wyoming, and XEUT in BCN, and they are somewhat separable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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